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By Melissa B. Brisman, Esq. and Nancy M. Hartzband, Esq.
Couples may want to think about their cyropreserved (frozen) embryos, to be sure that they are on “the same page” and that their intentions for future use and disposition have been addressed in a written and signed ...

By Becky Fawcett
I’m infertile. Seriously infertile. Infertile to the tune of 5 rounds of IVF in my early 30s, 3 pregnancies, and 3 miscarriages. One at 16 weeks, one at 12 weeks and one at 10 weeks. Infertile to the tune of ruining every holiday, every birthday, ...

By Kathy Balmer
I am well past the age of hoping to get pregnant. In fact, if that actually happened at this point I would probably go off the deep end into insanity. However, I’m still somewhat scarred by my experiences of infertility and even to this day I find myself becoming a little ...

Freezing your eggs. No such thing when I was in my college years and I wonder how my life would’ve been different if this procedure was around back then. I know for some, the pressure of finding “Mr.Right” would have diminished considerably. For them, the flavor of desperation ...

The texts started flowing about a minute after the first Supreme Court decision regarding the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was announced, and they picked back up when Proposition 8 fell as well.
Interestingly, my straight friends were the first out of the gate with their ...

For the 15% of the population experiencing fertility challenges, the enormous improvements in the field of reproductive medicine in the past 25 years are a blessing. Kathy Fountain, LMHC, Mind Body Tampa Bay, discusses your options.This video is made possible by a grant from Attain Fertility® ...

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by Kelly Baek, M.D.
Getting Started
Deciding to build a family as a single woman or as a lesbian couple requires planning. Women who have ...

By Victoria Maizes, M.D.
Joyously, you’re considering having a baby. What could be more natural? Women become pregnant every day, often unintentionally. Still, many women struggle to conceive and the modern world has a host of unhealthy factors to contend with during that ...

by William D. Petok, Ph.D.
While the state of fertility and infertility knowledge has grown enormously since the first IVF baby was born, one would be hard pressed to understand the role of men in the equation if you read only the popular press. A cursory view of non-scientific ...

By Mickey S. Coffler, M.D., FACOG, HRC Fertility
Lack of insurance coverage and high IVF costs may limit access to assisted reproductive technologies among minorities in the US.
There is some controversy in the literature as to whether there is a significant ethnic disparity in infertility ...